Improvement in seed-planters



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Seed-Plantprs.

Patented Jan. 5, 1875.

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WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS, OF (JOLLIERSTOWN, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,440, dated January 5, 1875 application filed August 15, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS, of (Jollierstown, in the county of Rockbridge and State of Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Seed-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a vertical section; Fig. 2, a top view. Fig. 3 represents the changeable gage detached. Fig. 4 is a top view of the false bottom of the seed-box detached.

The invention will first be full; described, and then pointed out in the claim.

A is a short plow; B, the beam; 0 O, the handles, and D D the standards, to the ends of which shovels E E are attached. F is' the central seed-furrow standard, having a shovel, G,dircci 1y back of which is the dropping-tubeH. I is the seed-box, arranged at the back end of the double beam B. J is the slide, to which is attached a changeable seed-gage, K,hav-

l ing a semicircular notch in rear end, so that, by placing end not notched under the head of screw K, and giving the latter a turn, it is fastened, and, with the same facility, maybe removed without ever taking out the screw. The end of this gage also works under the spring L, which prevents clogging of the seed. P is a detachable false bottom in the seed-box, which relieves the slide J from the weight of the seed by snbjacent supports and side apertures p p. The pressure over the seed-vent of slide is thus removed, and its liabilit; to clog obviated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A false bottom, P, for seeder-hoppers, provided with subjacent support and side apertures, as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS. Witnesses:

H. A. HUMPHREYS, A. S. M AGKEY. 

